By: Raymond (Senate Sponsor - Springer) H.B. No. 3526
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
May 1, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local
Government; May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 3; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the application of a municipal building code to the
construction of a solar pergola.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 214, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 214.221 to read as follows:
Sec. 214.221. REGULATION OF SOLAR PERGOLAS. A municipality
may not apply a municipal building code to the construction of a
solar pergola.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to the construction of a solar pergola on or after the effective
date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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